Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Mar 23, 2023

For those who are still willing to access the birdsite, this promises to be very entertaining:

https://twitter.com/DV2559106965076/status/1638769434763608064

Basically, someone discovered that the latex source "sparks of AGI" paper from MSFT includes a lot of commented out stuff and they're going through it.

[I just downloaded the source too and can confirm that the first thing they point out, at least, checks out.]

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Show threadKnud Jahnke

@emilymbender

My mantra: allways sanitize you LaTeX sources. Years ago telescope proposals to ESO had to submit their source. Referees usually just read the generated PDFs but one could also look at the source...

Mar 24, 2023 at 6:44pmWeb
Show threadPsittacus cafeinaMar 25, 2023
@knud @emilymbender
In-thread they mention that arXiv requires posting the entire source code. Might violate rules to scrub it like that
Show threadKnud JahnkeMar 25, 2023

@caffetiel @emilymbender

You need to submit the code that makes the paper. And comments in LaTeX never impact anything. So I don't see how removing every commented bit could 'violate' anything.